Clipboard Killer
Tonight I had what could have been a catastrophic copy-paste maneuver.
It was only mildly embarrassing and not really a big deal, but the potential for far, far more damning mis-pastes was suddenly very real to me. A very dear friend once told me of her compulsive re-copy/re-cut clipboard purging routine to avoid such incidents, which inspired me to create the shortest Applescript I have ever created.
Attached is the zipped standalone application version, and the “source code” (hah) is below, so you can make your own, or tune it as you see fit.
So what you do is just run this script (I like mine cuz it has a nice icon to remind me of the consequence) and leave it running in the Dock. It purges your clipboard every 25 seconds and replaces it with ”…”’s instead, which is a nice reminder that your script is running and watching your back, without potentially embarrassing you and other parties.
on idle
set the clipboard to "..."
return 25
end idle
That’s it. It makes a swell login-item. It could probably be better, but will serve its purpose well, and prevent me from mis-pasting far worse things in the future.
Download: Clipboard Killer